The federal and New Brunswick governments will invest more than $13.3 million to support the construction of three housing projects in Miramichi, including the East Side Affordable Housing Development (ESAH) project.
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Halifax architect, Brian MacKay-Lyons, a founding partner of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Ltd., has been appointed to the Order of Canada for his contributions to architecture, reverent of Nova Scotia culture.
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Government of Canada will provide $526,785 to a custom home builder in N.S. to support a project conducting front-end engineering design studies of deep energy retrofits for six municipally owned buildings in Sask., Ont., and N.S., to discover cost-effective pathways to reduced energy consumption through panelized retrofits.
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Two projects by the Government of Canada have increased the capacity of New Brunswick’s engineers, land-use planning professionals, and environmental non-government organizations to adapt to climate change in the buildings sector through education, training, and certification.
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A public/private partnership has launched a program to eliminate more than 15 million tonnes (15 billion kg) of greenhouse gas emissions from cement and concrete production in Canada by 2030, followed by ongoing reductions of over 4 million tonnes (4 billion kg) annually.
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The Government of Canada’s Apprenticeship Service has granted more than $21M to the BC Construction Association (BCCA), in hopes of solving the province’s skilled trades worker shortage by incentivizing construction sector’s SME employers attract more hires into first-year trade apprenticeships.
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The Wind Engineering, Energy, and Environment (WindEEE) Research Facility received $3,887,057 federal grant aimed at helping advance the organization’s goal to enhance climate resiliency and sustainability of the built environment and strengthen the systems for climate and wind engineering education.
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Construction firms EllisDon and DIALOG have received more than $550,000 from the Government of Canada to fund a study of hybridized mass timber materials, to be developed for achieving reduction in carbon emissions and expansion in building design possibilities.
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The City of Toronto, federal government, and Ontario’s provincial government announced more than $2.9 million in joint funding to rehabilitate the historic Spadina Museum.
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